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GARMEB'TT FASTENING. No. 315,944. Patented Apr 14, 1885.

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JAMES C. HYDE, OF \VEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WEST HAVEN BUCKLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,9Q4, dated April 14, 1885.

Application filed February 24, 1885.

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES C. HYDE, of West Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Garment-Fastenings and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view showing the attachment as made to the end of a strap; Fig. 2, the attachingplate as constructed 1 flat; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the same, showing the spurs and tongues turned up preparatory to attachment; Fig. 4, a transverse section through the tongues, flap, and strap after attachment; Fig. 5, a vertical section through the flap, plate, strap, and one of the spurs after attachment; Fig. 6, a verticalccntral section of the attaching-plate,illustrating the method of applying the strap.

This invention relates to an improvement 2 5 in that class of garment-fastenings which are attached'to the end of straps-such as stocking and-sleeve supporters and various kinds of suspending devicesthe invention relating particularly to the construction whereby the 0 fastening is secured to the strap.

Various tubular constructions have been made whereby the end of the strap would be embraced. Spurs have also been formed in the fastening, with tongues adapted to be 3 5 turned down upon the strap after the strap has been set upon the spurs, and the spurs themselves turned down, the tongues serving to cover the spurs.

The object of my invention is to construct 0 the fastening so that the end of the strap may be held firmly embraced by the clasp; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claims.

In illustrating my invention I show it as applied to a common well .-known springclasp, in which A represents the one jaw to be fixed to the strap, and B the hinged jaw No model.)

hung to the fixed jaw A. The end of the fixed jaw is extended,'and transversely through this extension a slot, (1., is made in length equal to the width of the strap to be attached. In cutting this slot, spurs b (more or less in number) are left upon one edge, preferably the lower edge. This slot leaves aprojecting flap, (i, above, below the slot, and on each side is a laterally-projecting tongue, 6.

The spurs b b are turned inward at right angles to the plane of the jaw, and the tongues e 6 also turned up in the same direction, as seen in Fig. 3, preparatory to applying the strap. The strap 0 is passed through the slot a from the outside inward, and, as indicated in Fig. 6, its end brought down upon the fixed jaw A over the spurs b, as indicated 6 5 in broken lines, Fig. 6. Then the spurs are turned down, and then the flap (2 is turned over onto the spurs and upon the end portion of the strap, as seen in Fig. 5, the flap (1 closing the spurs and end of the strap between it and thejaw A. This done, the tongues e e are turned inward over the flap B, as seen in Figs. 1 and 4, which secures the flap in its place hard upon the strap. The tongues 6 also cover the edge of the flap to prevent its 7 5 catching upon the garments. This construction of the attaching device makes it of the firmest possible character, and gives to the device,when attached, a neat and finished appearancc.

While representing this attaching device as upon a common garment-clasp,'it will be understood that it may be applied to any of the known clasps or equivalent garment-fastenings which are to be attached to the end of S 5 a strap, the construction of the attachingplate being the same in any case.

IVhile I prefer to apply the spurs b, they may be omitted entirely and a very firm attachment made by closing the flap d and the 0 tongues firmly upon the strap 5 but I prefer to employ the spurs.

I claim 1. The hereindescribed improvement in attaching devices for garment-fastenings, con- 95 sisting in the attaching-plate constructed with with a laterally-projecting tongue, 6, 011 each side the plate below the slot, substantially as 10 described.

JAMES C. HYDE.

Witnesses:

WM. H. PEoK, Jr., WALTER A. MAIN. 

